Hi all, I’m here to ask for career Advice.

I’m entering a final round interview with McKinsey. I never thought I would be McKinsey competitive so this really pleasantly surprised me when initially a recruiter reached out to me around a month ago to start this process. As I didn’t think I would make it this far, I didnt think too much about it, but did prepare appropriately. Now that I’m going into the final round, it really got me thinking of the possibility.

I’m a data scientist technical analyst (title is manager of analytics but Im really just a one man team managing a bunch of client analytics) at an actuarial consulting firm where my day to day involves stats, Econ, and mostly coding in Python, SQL (all in spark). Essentially I work directly with big data. The initial salary for McKinsey is around just 10% higher than what I am making now so salary is not a large area of concern although I believe McKinsey raise/year is higher.

Do you all think transitioning to consulting would be a good career move? I understand I would still be analytics but I would no longer be coding directly and I’m torn if that may actually hinder my career although I imagine the ceiling of my career is higher with McKinsey on my resume (if I pass the final round).

Anyone else transition from data to consulting?